Several years ago, when my granddaughter was about 10, I asked her if she would like to go with me to North Carolina to see the Cherokee Indian Reservation and the Trail of...” She finished the question herself.

“The Trail of Tears? I know about that! We learned it in school. Can I go, please?”

In response to Kevin Palmer’s letter about the Confederate Monument on Broad Street, he may just have taken one line in the inscription “slightly out of context” as well as missing the simple literary substitution of words.

A group of Columbia County educators and parents have made a good-faith effort to start a charter school with a curriculum heavily steeped in foreign language and the arts.

It seems a shame the county’s school board isn’t interested in assisting them.

For the second time in as many years, school board members rejected the Columbia County School for the Arts’ petition to open a public charter school – the county’s first – on 15 acres near Blanchard Woods Park in Evans.

It’s as if we stepped into a time machine and went 15 years back into the past.

The governing body of a southern state displays a Confederate flag. The flag is denounced as being hurtful to black citizens. There are demands that the flag be taken down.

So it was in South Carolina last week when a white terrorist killed nine black people in Charleston, telling them, “you’ve raped our women, and you are taking over the country … I have to do what I have to do.”

Whatever you think about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more changes are on the way. What will the next wave of health reform look like and when will it happen? With the pending Supreme Court decision on the ACA subsidies, Health Reform 2.0 may happen sooner rather than later.

Whether the changes are modifications, replacements, repeal or expansion, certain basic principles should be at the core of Health Reform 2.0.